If they are too dumb to make important decisions what particular magic happens in the voting booth that makes them able to figure out who to vote for?
Sadly, there is no such magic. However, while our implementation of representative government is obviously far from perfect, it still beats every bag of rocks having a direct say in the matter.
There's also an argument there for some sort of Utopian meritocracy where the most intelligent people act as benevolent overlords to protect the bags of rocks from themselves. The hurdle in that case (ignoring the 300lb gorilla that is "Utopian" and all of the assumptions that come with it) is developing a definition of who is fit to rule that is practical, morally defensible, and involves a more scientifically accurate model of intelligence/competence than we have at present.
Even worse! The Chinese satellite that got blasted a few years back is now 2317 traceable pieces. If the odds are for 1 piece, then odds are about 75% somebody is going to get thwacked!
Or maybe not.
Very much maybe not. That figure makes the assumption that none of the pieces will burn up on re-entry. Given that it's already in small pieces that will individually burn up more easily and that UARS is "huge" (I have no info on the Chinese ex-satellite, but let's assume for the moment that it was of fairly average size), the chances of being hit by a piece of that Chinese satellite are probably far lower.
The spirit of copyright was to protect the authors for a limited amount of time in return for the works to fall into public domain after a fixed, limited amount of time.
You screwed everyone by effectively removing the public domain part of the copyright idea, so we're screwing you out of the protected part.
I just accidentally hit back and lost a huge post that I don't have time to retype, but this is a very interesting approach to the current IP climate that I'm surprised I've never heard before. To summarize what I was typing out an extended Metallica-based example of (under 1790 law their first album's copyright would expire this year), first look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg.
Compared to the 1790 law and 1800 census data, the current copyright duration has increased threefold and life expectancy twofold. Not only that, but the language has changed. It was originally "14 years, plus the option of a 14 year extension if you're still alive". Now, it's "70 years after you die", which implicitly is meant to support someone other than the creator of the work. While I'm sure there are some here who would like to go back to the 1790 version if anything, I feel that the 1831 (28 years + 14 if you're alive) or 1909 (28 + 28 if you're alive) versions would be more reasonable to keep the original law in line with life expectancy. I can definitely imagine piracy being a smaller issue if the idea that "this album/movie/vintage porn etc. will eventually be free legally during my lifetime" was in the minds of consumers as opposed to "you have to pay for everything forever".
Not competing on contract length, or better yet ditching contracts altogether.
I'm on a no-contract plan with T-Mobile. I pay $15/month for unlimited texts with 10c/min voice. If I don't put money on my account when the monthly bill kicks in, it just doesn't work until I put the money into it and I'm good to go again. As someone who rarely makes extended voice calls, it works out quite nicely.
I've spent the past few years using a workstation Thinkpad (T61p) as a gaming machine -- they're simply not designed for that purpose like that Asus is. With a small external cooling stand in an air conditioned room, playing WoW for half an hour has clocked my video card (Quadro FX750M -- basically a GF8600M GT) at 97 C. That being said, the Blade appears to have about as much ventilation as my T61p. However, given the positioning of the vents, it IS possible that there are two fans like in the G73.
The real problem is that Windows is reporting drive and file sizes in GiB (while making the mistake of labelling it GB of course).
Solution:
Insert an option in Explorer (and any other file managers that do this, not sure off the top of my head what does and doesn't for other OSes) to toggle between GiB and "true" GB. Hard drive vendors should then use both units to avoid confusion. When I go on newegg or wherever, I should see drives labelled as 80 GB (74 GiB) Seagate SATA blah blah blah.
Add what you want and set it as your homepage, it's linked to your Google account so as long as you're logged in it works from anywhere. There's a very large list of widgets and RSS feeds to choose from, although I'm pretty sure you can add any RSS feed you want.
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If they are too dumb to make important decisions what particular magic happens in the voting booth that makes them able to figure out who to vote for?
Sadly, there is no such magic. However, while our implementation of representative government is obviously far from perfect, it still beats every bag of rocks having a direct say in the matter.
There's also an argument there for some sort of Utopian meritocracy where the most intelligent people act as benevolent overlords to protect the bags of rocks from themselves. The hurdle in that case (ignoring the 300lb gorilla that is "Utopian" and all of the assumptions that come with it) is developing a definition of who is fit to rule that is practical, morally defensible, and involves a more scientifically accurate model of intelligence/competence than we have at present.
Even worse! The Chinese satellite that got blasted a few years back is now 2317 traceable pieces. If the odds are for 1 piece, then odds are about 75% somebody is going to get thwacked!
Or maybe not.
Very much maybe not. That figure makes the assumption that none of the pieces will burn up on re-entry. Given that it's already in small pieces that will individually burn up more easily and that UARS is "huge" (I have no info on the Chinese ex-satellite, but let's assume for the moment that it was of fairly average size), the chances of being hit by a piece of that Chinese satellite are probably far lower.
The spirit of copyright was to protect the authors for a limited amount of time in return for the works to fall into public domain after a fixed, limited amount of time.
You screwed everyone by effectively removing the public domain part of the copyright idea, so we're screwing you out of the protected part.
I just accidentally hit back and lost a huge post that I don't have time to retype, but this is a very interesting approach to the current IP climate that I'm surprised I've never heard before. To summarize what I was typing out an extended Metallica-based example of (under 1790 law their first album's copyright would expire this year), first look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg.
Compared to the 1790 law and 1800 census data, the current copyright duration has increased threefold and life expectancy twofold. Not only that, but the language has changed. It was originally "14 years, plus the option of a 14 year extension if you're still alive". Now, it's "70 years after you die", which implicitly is meant to support someone other than the creator of the work. While I'm sure there are some here who would like to go back to the 1790 version if anything, I feel that the 1831 (28 years + 14 if you're alive) or 1909 (28 + 28 if you're alive) versions would be more reasonable to keep the original law in line with life expectancy. I can definitely imagine piracy being a smaller issue if the idea that "this album/movie/vintage porn etc. will eventually be free legally during my lifetime" was in the minds of consumers as opposed to "you have to pay for everything forever".
I've actually seen authorities.
Wish I had mod points.
Not competing on contract length, or better yet ditching contracts altogether.
I'm on a no-contract plan with T-Mobile. I pay $15/month for unlimited texts with 10c/min voice. If I don't put money on my account when the monthly bill kicks in, it just doesn't work until I put the money into it and I'm good to go again. As someone who rarely makes extended voice calls, it works out quite nicely.
is a mother somewhere talking to her son. "I spent 50 grand on a college degree and you spend all your time looking at panda poop?"
Only 50? They're lucky to only be looking at the poop instead of shoveling it!
You have to wonder how good the cooling system is on that thing...
I'd be concerned about this as well. Look at the cooling on one of the big bulky Asus gaming laptops: http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G73Jh/
I've spent the past few years using a workstation Thinkpad (T61p) as a gaming machine -- they're simply not designed for that purpose like that Asus is. With a small external cooling stand in an air conditioned room, playing WoW for half an hour has clocked my video card (Quadro FX750M -- basically a GF8600M GT) at 97 C. That being said, the Blade appears to have about as much ventilation as my T61p. However, given the positioning of the vents, it IS possible that there are two fans like in the G73.
What good does this do them anyways? It's not like there's anything going on in those conversations besides BORK BORK BORK BORK BORK BORK BORK.
I did the same exact thing. Figured I'd open it up and see what all the hype was about. Oh God what is this thing how do I get out of it.
The real problem is that Windows is reporting drive and file sizes in GiB (while making the mistake of labelling it GB of course). Solution: Insert an option in Explorer (and any other file managers that do this, not sure off the top of my head what does and doesn't for other OSes) to toggle between GiB and "true" GB. Hard drive vendors should then use both units to avoid confusion. When I go on newegg or wherever, I should see drives labelled as 80 GB (74 GiB) Seagate SATA blah blah blah.
I've been buying cell phones and accessories from a TALKING machine for years! It's called Raido Shack.
http://www.google.com/ig
Add what you want and set it as your homepage, it's linked to your Google account so as long as you're logged in it works from anywhere. There's a very large list of widgets and RSS feeds to choose from, although I'm pretty sure you can add any RSS feed you want.